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The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) says The Ba­hamas econ­o­my re­mains re­silient even as it ac­knowl­edged that growth is ex­pect­ed to de­cel­er­ate slight­ly in 2025.

An IMF mis­sion, which end­ed a two-week as­sign­ment here, said that re­al gross do­mes­tic prod­uct (GDP) was ro­bust in the first se­mes­ter and is pro­ject­ed to grow by 2.8 per cent in 2025, main­ly dri­ven by con­struc­tion and buoy­ant cruise tourism.

“Growth is pro­ject­ed to con­tin­ue mod­er­at­ing in 2026, part­ly due to rel­a­tive­ly stag­nant stay­over tourism. Over the medi­um term, growth is ex­pect­ed to slow to­ward the as­sessed po­ten­tial growth rate of the econ­o­my, 1.5 per cent,” said Jorge Salas, the se­nior econ­o­mist of the IMF’s West­ern Hemi­sphere De­part­ment.